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Amazon seeks patent for autonomous ground vehicle that picks up your packages

Is a robotic retriever in your future? Amazon thinks so: In a patent application published today, inventors working for the… Read More

Amazon patents a robot that can tailor clothes with glow-in-the-dark guidance

Amazon has taken one more conceptual step toward an integrated system that can size up fashion customers and sell them… Read More

Amazon finally wins a patent for 3-D printing on demand, for pickup or delivery

News Brief: It’s been a long time coming, but today Amazon can say it holds the patent for a retailing… Read More

Why Amazon patented a delivery drone that’s designed to self-destruct

Most inventors look for ways to make their machines more robust, but Amazon has won a patent for delivery drones… Read More

Mohawk tribe sues Amazon and Microsoft in complicated supercomputer patent spat

A Native American tribe and a small computer company have reportedly sued Amazon and Microsoft, claiming that they’re infringing on… Read More

Amazon patents a method for identity authentication that uses music as the key

Amazon’s inventors have come up with a computer-based system that makes use musical transformations to authenticate a whole group of… Read More

Battle of the retail blimps: Amazon and Walmart propose airship drone stations

We already know about Amazon’s concept for airship warehouses to support drone deliveries, but here’s a new twist: Now the… Read More

Augmented-reality shopping on your phone? Patent hints at Amazon’s ambitions

It’s no secret that Amazon is intrigued by the potential applications of augmented reality for e-commerce – and one of those… Read More

Amazon patents a power-charging robot that’ll come when you call

Have you ever scrambled around at an airport, hunting down a power outlet for your laptop or smartphone? Amazon’s inventors… Read More

Amazon Web Services adds IP protection while dropping controversial patent clause from user agreement

Around the same time it modified its basic user agreement to drop a patent-related clause that troubled customers, Amazon Web… Read More

Amazon Web Services drops controversial patent clause from standard user agreement

Amazon Web Services has quietly dropped a controversial provision from its user agreement that essentially forced customers to agree that… Read More

Does this robot make me look fat? Amazon’s mannequin system checks the fit

Amazon has won yet another patent for a system that would use robotic mannequins to check the fit of garments… Read More

Amazon’s delivery drone hive looks like it came from a sci-fi movie nightmare

If filmmakers ever decide to do a remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds,” with drones instead of birds, they could… Read More

UW CoMotion innovation hub cuts 15% of staff amid loss of patent revenue, changing model

The University of Washington’s innovation hub CoMotion is cutting approximately 15 percent of its staff as well as eliminating open… Read More

Amazon proposes a ‘virtual safety shroud’ to protect pets and people from drones

What happens if a child or a dog wanders into range while a drone is dipping down to make a delivery?… Read More

Meet the robo-janitor designed by Amazon for cleaning up robotic warehouses

How does Amazon plan to keep automated warehouses free of debris? With automated cleanup robots, of course. At least that’s… Read More

Amazon patents shipping label with built-in parachute for dropping packages from drones

It’s a bird, it’s a plane … oh wait, it’s my package of diapers. Amazon customers could someday be repeating… Read More

Underwater warehouses? Amazon’s aquatic fulfillment centers could make it so

Amazon has patented some crazy ideas, including flying fulfillment centers that drop packages from the air. But its patent for… Read More

Seattle startup TurboPatent raises $1.4M to expand patent automation capabilities

Seattle startup TurboPatent has raised $1.45 million in a convertible note as it gets ready to release the second version… Read More

Amazon patents drones with telescoping landing legs and foldable propellers

Amazon’s inventors are taking a page from Inspector Gadget’s playbook to design drones with adjustable landing legs and reconfigurable propellers.… Read More

Incoming! Amazon patents a plan to turn its drone delivery packages into gliders

Amazon has come up with some wild and crazy patents, but a patent issued today has to rank among the wildest:… Read More

Amazon’s latest drone patent features foldable wings for flippable flight

Amazon has sought patents for hitchhiking drones, mini-drones that can sit on shoulders, drones that assemble themselves like Lego toys – and… Read More

Amazon wins patent for Treasure Truck as it makes plans to expand beyond Seattle

If you’re thinking about building a knockoff of Amazon’s Treasure Truck, the funky delivery vehicle for flash deals ranging from cameras… Read More

Amazon patents system to help autonomous vehicles handle traffic shifts

There’s been a lot of speculation about Amazon’s interest in self-driving delivery trucks, and a newly issued patent suggests that… Read More

Samsung, not IBM, tops US patent wins in 2016, says Seattle public records startup Sqoop

Samsung and its subsidiaries won the most patents of any company in 2016, according to a new report from Sqoop,… Read More

For 24th straight year, IBM granted most U.S. patents, but Microsoft and Amazon are gaining

IBM is once again the king of patents, according to a new report, but other tech giants, including Pacific Northwest… Read More

Amazon seeks patent for system that links up drones to create a Borg for deliveries

Right now, Amazon’s delivery drones are designed to drop off packages weighing no more than 5 pounds. But what if… Read More

Drone delivery from flying blimp ‘fulfillment centers’? Are you kidding, Amazon?

Some patents seem so way out that you have to wonder if they’re a joke. Such is the case for… Read More

Amazon patents system to defend drones against hackers, jammers … and arrows

If there are any Robin Hoods out there who are thinking about shooting down drones while they’re making deliveries, Amazon… Read More

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Nathan Myhrvold: If you obsess about what people think of you, you’ll never change the world

Intellectual Ventures CEO Nathan Myhrvold is one of the most controversial figures in the technology industry — a lightning rod for… Read More